Note to self:

the_jaffa

... While pulling your pedal board apart to try to diagnose what's causing the lack signal to the amp, make sure that it is not the kill switch on the guitar first.

Ahem

Rather embarrassing when I realised

Any other useful notes to self?

stickyfiddle

Nice

kossofffan

The other day I was cursing the newish Polytune II on my board as it was not tracking. After much faffing with the power lead and frantic pushing off the side button, I even looked for its box as I always place the receipts inside. Thinking its a pain to return and await a replacement when I discovered my guitar wasn't plugged in!! Even my missus was laughing at my ineptitude

Rox

Yup.  Make sure when you plug your tuner in, that you put the input in the input socket and output in the output.  It doesn't work if you plug it in the other way around.  No amount of checking the amp or guitar, volumes and cables make a difference.

*cough*

badlydrawnbanjo

Always check your wah's not clicked on but looks like it's off..

Deijavoo

I was playing a gig at the Bull and Gate one time and had a total hissy fit when no sound was coming out, disconnected pedal board, switched amp on and off. I did all sorts in between my total tantrums.

I then looked and seen that I hadn't plugged the jack into my guitar, it was just hanging off my strap.

Gig went fine after that. 

=D>

usedtobe

Pfff...

randomhandclaps

badlydrawnbanjo said:

Always check your wah's not clicked on but looks like it's off..

@Gassage can vouch for that.

impmann

Stay away from eBay after beer... that's my top tip.

UnclePsychosis

Mate of mine once took a Boss pedal back to the shop because it stopped working. They kept it for a week, tested it, all fine. He took it home, still didn't work. Took it back, insisted they send it to Boss. They did, few weeks later it comes back saying "works fine".

He took it home, *still* didn't work.

It was only then that he remembered the input is on the right and the output on the left. Silly git had plugged it in the wrong way round, three times!

kossofffan

impmann;760396" said:

Stay away from eBay after beer... that's my top tip.

About 7 years ago I was well into mountain biking and loved a bottle of Vodka on a Friday night to kickstart the weekend! Had no reconnection of being on the 'Wiggle' website till £700 of lights, goretex coat & other goodies arrived on the Tuesday!
Don't do either riding or vodka now but have had a few beer purchases on eBay

p90fool

I singer I work with called me to her house two weeks ago because she couldn't get the line out from her Fishman amp to work into a powered monitor she'd just bought.

I drove the eight miles over there and quickly established that the volume on her guitar was turned down.
She's no dippy technophobe either, she gigs six nights a week on her own with a variety of supplied or rented gear.
We all do it from time to time

johnswiss

Note to self of today has been don't put a disposable nappy in with the washing - it was an accident btw not a cost cutting exercise. And guitar related... don't drink a lot of red wine and then lean over your prized candy tangerine tele to reach something - with a full glass of red wine in your hand.

mike_l

I've plugged in both my Phase90's to do a comparrison. Fresh batteries, into the amp, and the guitar, got a good sound from the amp switched the P90 on, no sounds, nothing, completely dead. Switch the P90 off, plenty of sounds. Couldn't work out what was wrong. Until I realised I'd plugged into the out of the P90's.

 I have stripped a pedal board, tweaked every setting on my amp trying to get rid of a midrange honky sound. Then I ried switching my wah off........

TWAT.

Dave_Mc

Yeah the other night I wasn't getting any signal from my amp and I started troubleshooting the pedalboard. Luckily after a few seconds I noticed I hadn't any cable going to the amp input. I'd been trying a new cable I got straight into the amp and forgot to reconnect my pedalboard to the amp input.

Fuzzdog

badlydrawnbanjo said:

Always check your wah's not clicked on but looks like it's off..

I think I've lost count of the amount of times I've been caught out by this one over the years.  The difference in tone should make the culprit totally obvious, but for some reason it's the last thing I check.

This is also why I refuse to buy a wah without an LED now. )

The time I wondered why my JCM800 head wasn't working at a soundcheck was a good one.  Took me far too long to realise I'd plugged the speaker into the effects send when in a hurry to set up.  Miraculously, the amp was totally fine and sounded great for the rest of the gig once things were plugged into the right holes.

Chalky

Note to self. Don't reply to Classified WTBs.

ThorpyFX

Chalky said:

Note to self. Don't reply to Classified WTBs.

true fact!

Chalky

Touché

Gru

I'm quite glad that I favour acoustics.

I strum an acoustic and it just works. :-)

57Deluxe

...or a power cut...